The Wall Street Journal: U.S. grants TikTok another extension for divesture deal

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The Commerce Department announced two weeks ago that it wouldn’t be able to enforce its order effectively forcing TikTok to shut down pending the outcome of litigation.

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal officials have granted TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. a weeklong extension of a deadline for completing a divestiture deal, in another delay of the Trump administration’s effort to turn the social-media app into an American company.